#duchampian

Ry Rocklen. Second to None. 2011.

Try a #Duchampian perspective. Seeing #MoMA's #Dadaglobe through #MarcelDuchamp's "To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour," 1918, oil, silver leaf, lead wire, and magnifying lens on glass (cracked), mounted between panes of glass in a standing metal frame #DadaglobeReconstructed #Dada (at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art)

“The predetermination of the goal man is to attain, if this goal is on the order of knowledge, and the rational adaptation of the means for reaching this goal would be enough to defend it against all accusations of mysticism. We say that the art of imitation (of places, of scenes, of external objects) has had its day and that the artistic problem today consists of making mental representation more and more objectively precise through the voluntary exercise of imagination and memory (it being understood that only the perception of the outside world has permitted the involuntary acquisition of the materials which mental representation is called up to use). The greatest benefit that surrealism has gotten out of this sort of operation is the fact that we have succeeded in dialectically reconciling these two terms - perception and representation - that are so violently contradictory for the adult man, and the fact that we have thrown a bridge over the abyss that separated them. Surrealist painting and construction have now permitted the organization of perceptions with an objective tendency around subjective elements. These perceptions, through their very tendency to assert themselves as objective perceptions are of such a nature as to be bewildering and revolutionary, in the sense that they urgently call for something to answer them in outer reality. It may be predicted that in large measure this something will be.” Andre Breton 

Lego Duchamp (Nude Descending...) by William Keckler on Flickr.